Muhammad al-Zawahiri

Muhammad al-Zawahiri (1953-) was an Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader and the brother of Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Biography
Muhammad al-Zawahiri was born in 1953 in Giza, Egypt, to an upper-middle class family, and he was the brother of Ayman al-Zawahiri. al-Zawahiri was a graduate of Cairo University in 1974 and worked at a construction company in Saudi Arabia, and in 1981 he recruited Mustafa Kamel Mustafa and Abdel Hadi al-Tunsi into his brother's Egyptian Islamic Jihad group. Zawahiri joined the World Islamic Relief Organization in Indonesia, Bosnia, and Malawi, helping to build schools and clinics. al-Zawahiri was sent to the Balkans by his brother in 1993 to meet with future President of Bosnia and Herzegovina Alija Izetbegovic, then commander of the Bosnian 3rd Corps, during the Bosnian War to give funds to the Bosnian Mujahideen and ensure that the Bosnian Army was Islamicized. In 1999, he was one of the jihadists tried in the "Returnees from Albania" trial by the Egyptian government, and in 2011 he was briefly released before being re-arrested and being re-released in 2012. In August 2013, he was arrested once more with 67 others, charged with undermining the security of Egypt.